Buckle



Feb. 26 1924. 1,485,122

'r. H. MILLER BUCKLE Filed Nov. 5 192a i atented Feb. 25, 1924.

THEODORE H. MILLER, OF WATEBBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO WATERBURY BUCKLE CO., OF WATEEBURY, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

BUCKLE. 1

Application filed November 5, 1923.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THEODORE H. MILLER, a citizen of the United States. residing at Vlaterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Buckles; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent, in

Fig. 1 a view in front elevation of a rustless buckle constructed in accordance with my invention, shown as applied to a piece of webbing, which is partly broken away.

Fig. 2 an edge View thereof.

Fig. 3 a sectional view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 a view of the buckle-frame in front elevation on an enlarged scale.

Fig. 5 a. plan view thereof, prior to the closing of the web-gripping members of the frame, shown in their gripping positions by dotted lines.

My invention relates to an improvement in rustless buckles of the type shown and described in United States Patent No. 847,811, granted March 19. 1907. on the application of Morris Pellcr, the object of my presentinvention being to produce a wire-frame buckle in which the wire of the frame is bent to grip the fixed end of the webbing, whereby an economy of time, labor and webbing is effected, the sewing of the webhing to fasten it to the buckle being eliminated.

lVith these ends in view, my invention consists in a wire-frame rustless buckle having certain details of construction as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

As herein shown. I employ a bucklesframe made 'by bending a single piece of wire to form a continuous upper bar 6 merging at its ends into downwardly-bent side bars 7, the lower ends of which are bent inwardly until they nearly meet and then returned upon themselves to form complementary loops 8, which are set to be located in the vertical plane of the upper bar and which together form the lower bar of the buckle- Scrial No. 672,768.

frame. The coextensive lower reaches of the said loops 8 are bent forwardly and inwardly in the horizontal plane of the lower reaches of the said loops to form grippingarms 9, containing the respective ends to the wire. As thus shaped, the buckle-frame has a rmatively large webbingopening 10. A sheetanetal buckle-lever, pivotally mounted upon the continuous upper bar 6 of the frame, comprises, as shown, a fingerpiece 11 extending downward in front of the said webbingbpening 10, a gripping-edge 12 and hinge-fingers 13, which loosely embrace the bar 6 and pivot the lever upon the frame.

In webbing my improved buckle, what is to become the fixed end 14 of the webbing 15 is inserted between the lower reaches of the loops 8 of the frame and the grippingarms 9 thereof, after which the latter are clamped down upon it to bite into and hold it, as clearly shown in Fig. 3. The webbing is then passed from front to rear over the upper reaches of the loops 8, so as to form a friction-cushion 16, then downward to form the usual depending loop 17 and upward over the gripping-arms 9 and from front to rear over the cushion 16 and under the ripping-edge 12 of the buckle-lever, whereby the webbing is permanently fastened to the buckle-frame without stitching and with marked economy of time, labor, thread and webbing.

I claim:

A rustless buckle having a one-piece, wire THEODORE H. MILLER. Witnesses MARTIN T. LYNN, CHESTER Lrrrm. 

